No need to mow the lawn this weekend.

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'Doomsday Clock' moves to 90 seconds to midnight as nuclear threat rises

The "Doomsday Clock," created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to illustrate how close humanity has come to the end of the world, moved its "time" in 2023 to 90 seconds to midnight, 10 seconds closer than it has been for the past three years.

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/doomsday-clock-moves-90-seconds-midnight-nuclear-threat-rises-2023-01-24/

[Marlow]

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It seems, the world outlasted him :shock: .

Gaudeamus igitur and all that. No one gets out alive, so ultimately his doomsday predictions must come true.

[gh]

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I've missed Harold's rantings on the radio the last couple of years; used to be the highlight of my evening drive home.

[Pego]

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It seems, the world outlasted him :shock: .

[Marlow]

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How can you measure the courage and conviction it takes, to come out and strongly declare to the world's media, that the world might end next week! Simply amazing. :lol:

And what are the odds that when this 'deadline' comes and goes, he'll finally shut his yap? :roll:

"Oops, sorry, forgot to carry the 1 in that last calculation. Here, lemme run it again . . . uh . . . OK . . . got it! The world will end . . . um . . . in 11.4 BILLION years . . . oh... never ... mind."

[SQUACKEE]

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How can you measure the courage and conviction it takes, to come out and strongly declare to the world's media, that the world might end next week! Simply amazing. :lol:

[Marlow]

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wolf[/u]]I think Harold has cried " wolf "too many times.

Ha, I see what you did there! :wink:

[lonewolf]

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I think Harold has cried " wolf "too many times.

[Pego]

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Darn, I forgot and paid my bills this week.

[jeremyp]

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Yeah he's confusing himself with us. Betting against the end of the world is the safest bet there is.....for one obvious reason.

[Marlow]

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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... z1bKWNzc9q

"I do believe we're getting very near the very end," Camping, 90, said during a podcast recorded earlier this month and posted on his Family Radio website.

Well . . . some of us are, Harold . . .

[gh]

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well, OK, maybe it won't be tomorrow either (dang... now I have to figure out what to wear after all)

<<This time, Harold Camping sounds like a man who has suffered the whisper of self-doubt.
The Oakland minister's latest prediction of the end of the world - which he's set for Friday - is couched among words like "probably" and "maybe,"...>>

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... z1bKWNzc9q

[lonewolf]

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I don't remember the year ( maybe it coincided with Y2K) but back when we had the last "rapture" alert and thousands of "believers" went to the mountaintops to be picked up, I had a chance encounter at a remote ferry crossing of a stream/river in western Oregon with a small group descending from the Armageddon no-show. The men were all riding tricked out $25,000 Harleys. Their "old ladies" and kids travelled in graffiti rich $800 bread vans with quilts dangling out the doors..
They were sociable, if scruffy, guys and while we waited for the ferry admitted they did not really expect the rapture but went up the mountain for a little smoke and a lot of last-chance free love

[kuha]

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I continue to be amazed at the ability of some seemingly "reasonable" people to believe--on some level--the most ludicrous nonsense.

I wholeheartedly agree. Just not from the same end of the spectrum, probably :lol:

This is where this whole thing should be left; and it makes everyone's point just fine.

[Marlow]

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Be that as it may, I wouldn't come here and slam you for your beliefs, since people choose to believe what they choose to believe. If that is what your mind and heart tell you, well, it is what it is. I won't ridicule you for it, even if I disagree wholeheartedly with you about it.

Where is this defensiveness coming from? Who is ridiculing you?
I think the NBA doesn't have the same level of PED problem as the NFL or MLB and people ARE openly ridiculing me here, and I have no problem with that!!